Re: pg_test_fsync problem

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Vladimir Kokovic <vladimir.kokovic@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2011-01-23T02:17:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote:
> He's complaining that it dies with EINVAL.

> I notice that (1) it's using O_DIRECT even though the printout claims
> otherwise, and (2) it's writing from a buffer that has no better than
> char alignment, which is certainly not OK for O_DIRECT.  Either one
> of those could plausibly result in EINVAL ...

Oh, scratch that: the buffer is properly aligned, it's the length that's
bogus for O_DIRECT.  I rather imagine that test_open_sync is meant to be
writing so many kilobytes, not so many bytes.

			regards, tom lane